FIRST DAY: Parents and students walk to Thorncliffe Public School and Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy Tuesday. Fraser
Mustard Early Learning Academy is Toronto’s first all-kindergarten school. For more on the school, see page 3.

Renovated Pape station reopened its doors this week after
a lengthy closure and commuters liked what they saw.
The station was shut for 12
straight days in August to hasten
renovation work dating back to
2009. On Tuesday, the first work
day since construction hoardings surrounding the station
were removed, commuters filing
through Pape had a chance to
see the progress of the work,
which includes new signs, tiling,
public artwork as well as glass
windows and sliding doors.
“It’s nice, very shiny,” said
Randal, who declined to provide his last name. The regular
commuter said Pape station
was virtually unrecognizable
following the work.
“It doesn’t even look like the
same station,” he said.
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Children to create own environment at new school
ANDREW PALAMARCHUK
apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com

East York’s Fraser Mustard
Early Learning Academy,
believed to be the largest allkindergarten school in North
America, opened its doors for
the first time Tuesday to 685
children.
The 26-classroom school,
at 82 Thorncliffe Park Dr., cost
nearly $25 million.
Construction began in June
2012. Parts of the building,
including an area that will
house a day-care centre,
will continue to be under
construction for a few more
months.
“Any of the safety concerns
have already been addressed,”
principal Catherine Ure
said.
“The people working in
the building will have their
police reference checks. Any
work that needs to be done
that would cause a problem
for our staff or children will
be done on weekends or evenings when nobody is in the
building. The schedule has
been created so that it’s going
to maintain a safe environment for the staff and the
students.”
The school has an all-day
kindergarten program; students will have class between
8:45 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.
“You’ve got just a critical
mass of learners at the same
age level,” Ure said. “The

that important. Well, they’re
all little, and they spend
almost all of their time on
the floor.”
The school is about 80,000
square feet and features
multiple playgrounds both
on ground level and on the
roof.
MODEL OF LEARNING
Staff photos/ANDREW PALAMARCHUK

Above, principal Catherine Ure in preparation for the opening day of classes this week at
the Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy in Thorncliffe Park. The new kindergarten-only
school, shown at top right, will house 685 students.

teachers are all developing
pedagogies using all of the
new research.”
The school has 85 staff,
including 32 teachers.
What’s the most unique
feature of the school?
“It is a blank palette. We
haven’t predetermined the

space for the children, we
haven’t coloured the walls
purple, we haven’t put in a
vast amount of colour,” Ure
said.
“What we wanted to do
is start with a blank palette
and have the children and the
teachers sort of grow within

the environment and develop
the environment to represent
their own voices.”
The building makes use
of natural lighting with large
windows.
“What I like too is we’ve
got in-floor heating,” Ure
said. “You might say why is

Donna Quan, Toronto
District School Board’s education director, said Fraser
Mustard is believed to be
the largest all-kindergarten
school in North America.
“To have three, four and
five year olds, 685 together,
it’s an opportunity for us to
have a model of learning on
how to focus intensely on the
early years,” she said.
“It’s unique in this community because there are so
many students of the same
age. Very rarely would you

get such a large cohort of
students between three and
five.”
A re a l l - k i n d e rg a r t e n
schools the way of the
future?
“It all depends on the
demographics of the area,”
Quan said. “In terms of busing
in kids to create a model like
this, it’s not something that I
think we’re advocating for at
this time.”
Each class has a mix of
junior and senior kindergarten students.
“The senior kindergartens
are older so they teach each
other,” teacher Trisha Babits
said. “It becomes more of a
mentorship relationship,
which is healthy for kids.”
There are two teachers
and up to 30 students in each
classroom.

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District School Board, visit
www.tdsb.on.ca

WoodGreen painting project connects students, seniors
REBECCA FIELD
rfield@metroland.com
WoodGreen Community
Services teamed up with
140 York University students to paint the hallways
of one of their seniors homes
recently.
The students painted the
22-storey building at 444

Logan Ave. country beige in
roughly four hours.
“It’s a good moment to stop
and reflect on our privilege
at being able to get to go to
university, to make people
feel comfortable in their
home,” said Ashley Grenville,
who works with the university housing program called
Residence Life.

The Logan Avenue building, which provides housing
to low-income seniors, is run
by WoodGreen, has 159 units
and is nearly 50 years old.
“I’m looking forward to
the conversations that will
come out of this experience,”
Grenville said. “Those who
have financial needs, and how
much we value the elderly in

our community.”
“At an educational institution such as York, there’s
not a large population of the
elderly, so this is an opportunity to connect with a part
of the community that we
don’t usually get to connect
with.”
The volunteers were all in
leadership positions at the

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Judy Lyons, 72, a resident of
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happy residents here.”
Angela Cooke, vice president of housing, community
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Cycling in the city
requires discussion
to continue rolling

Write us

J

umping on your bicycle and hitting the streets of
Toronto has become a complicated issue. It gets the
backs up of both cyclists and motorists.
Each side has complaints about the other: cyclists disobey
the rules of the road; motorists don’t look out for cyclists. This
kind of two-way antagonism helps no one, it only fuels fires
that seem easily sparked.
There has been much cycling talk lately, both good and bad:
Cycle Toronto wants to turn Harbord Street into Canada’s best
biking roadway; in June, new separated bike lanes opened on
Sherbourne Street; the city’s chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat,
teamed up with Cycle Toronto and took the cycling discussion
on the road – on her bike. Using hydro corridors to allow for
dedicated cycling, and of course dedicated bike lanes across
the city all deserve listening to.
On the heels of a study by
University of Toronto PhD student
Adrian Verster, who created a list
of 50 dangerous intersections for
cyclists in the city, a discussion on
how to best implement cycling in
Toronto is needed. And quickly. The
supposed ‘war on the car / bicycle’
needs to stop. It serves no one. And
with the city’s population growing quickly, cycling will become an
ever-increasing mode of transportation for many people.
Not surprisingly, the most dangerous intersections to cycle
in the city are located in the old city of Toronto – on Bloor and
Queen streets. However, there are dangerous intersections
for cyclists across the city: Lawrence Avenue and Overture
Road in Scarborough (No. 36) as well as Warden and McNicoll
avenues (No. 34).

our view

The supposed
‘war on the
car/bicycle
needs to stop

reports prove
If news reports prove anything, it is that there is always
the chance you can get hurt – even killed – while riding your
bike. It doesn’t matter where you ride your bike.
Ontario Minister of Transportation Glen Murray announced
on Friday the province’s 20-year vision for cycling, with the
goal to make Ontario the number one province for cycling
in Canada. This ambitious goal will need funding, dedication, and a clear vision tailored to each city across Ontario.
A cookie-cutter approach will not work.
The entirety of Toronto City Council is not expected to meet
until October, but they are all back to work after Labour Day,
including local community council meetings set for Sept. 10.
Torontonians should not shy away from pushing for a proper,
integrated cycling plan for the city.
It’s been long discussed, much maligned, and often ignored.
Councillors in the downtown core raise the issue often,
but this should not be another downtown versus suburbs
discussion.

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Political appointments are part of democracy too

W

hen I was young
I used to help
out on Saturday
mornings at my father’s
butcher shop at Danforth
and Woodbine.
My reward was 50 cents
to go to the afternoon matinee at the Prince of Whales
theatre on the same corner.
Today the spot is a thriving food store, but back in
the late 1950s it was one of
the old-style single screen
movie theatres.
The huge theatre was
packed with kids watching
serials, science fictions,
adventures and a host of
other B movies.
It was a fabulous experience and has left me a fan
of badly made but ernest
movies to this day.
My actual point in raising this bit of nostalgia is
that the theatre was owned
by an important political
figure.
That was Donald Dean
Summerville who had been
on Toronto city council
since 1955 before being
elected mayor in 1962.

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watchdog
Summerville’s term in
office was cut tragically
short due to a fatal heart
attack suffered during a
charity hockey tournament.
Even though there was
an ambulance in York
Township a mile away, it
could not be used due to
the regulations of the time.
Instead a City of Toronto
ambulance that was 10
miles away had to be used
and Summerville passed
away before it arrived.
Today Donald D.
Summerville is remembered by the Olympic-sized
pool located at the foot of
Woodbine Avenue.
His passing also set in
motion several other things
that we are still experiencing today.
In some ways the seeds
of today’s amalgamation
were planted as his death
lead to the creation of the

Department of Emergency
Services. Ambulance
services across what was
to become Metro Toronto
were one of the first to be
organized into one.
The other thing that
took place was that rather
than hold a byelection for
a new mayor, city council
appointed an interim
mayor.
controversy
That was Philip Givens,
and there was no controversy or outcry over the
decision.
In 1964 regular elections
were held and he was given
a public mandate to serve
until 1966.
The point is that
appointments are as much
part of democracy as are
elections and there is no
disenfranchisement of the
people when one is made.
Currently, there is a
controversy in city hall
over the decision made
by city council to make an
appointment to fill a vacant

council seat.
This is within their
mandate and is completely
democratic.
Some may grumble and
protest but as shown with
the Summerville case, there
is precedent.
The point here is that
under the City of Toronto
Act power lays with city
council and they have
made their decision.
Now for democracy to
work we must respect that
decision and let the wheels
of government turn.
Screaming and yelling
about the unfairness of
it all on the part of some
people simply shows their
lack of understanding of
how our municipal government works.
The world did not end
back in 1963 when Philip
Givens was appointed
mayor.
Joe Cooper is a long-time East
York resident and community
activist. His column appears
every Thursday. Contact him at
eym@insidetoronto.com

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The market runs until Nov.
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Don Mills United Church hosts
its annual community barbecue
and corn roast this Saturday.
The fun begins at 10 a.m.
Along with corn-on-the-cob,
there will be be a barbecue with
hamburgers and hot dogs, soft
drinks and coffee.
The church is located at 126
O’Connor Dr., at Pape Avenue.
The event takes place on Pape
side of the church.
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St. Luke’s Anglican Church
hosts an arts and crafts sale on
Saturday, Sept. 14.
The sale will run from 10 a.m.
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Vendors seeking to share their
artistic talents with fellow residents can book a table for $25.
The church is located at 904
Coxwell Ave.

MODERATES PANEL
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Beaches-East York MP Matthew
Kellway moderates a panel discusssion after the showing of the
documentary
film Change
Your name
Ousama! on
Friday.
The screening and discussion takes
place at the Ralph Thornton
Centre, 765 Queen St. E., from
6:30 to 9 p.m.

The event is free, and panellists are the documentary’s
director, Fau Chowdhury, and
local imam Saeed Rageah.
The event is hosted by DOC
Toronto, the Documentary
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For more info, visit www.doctoronto.ca
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Soul performer Mayer Hawthorne
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at 7 p.m.
His new album, Where Does
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reviews and he is embarking
on his North American tour next
month.
In October he will be touring
throughout the United Kingdom
and Europe with Bruno Mars.
Advance tickets are $25 and
$30 from ticketmaster.ca
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The city is asking residents to
call 311 to report locations where
summer vegetation growth is
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us identify and address situations that are potentially unsafe,”
Don Valley Councillor Denzil
Minnan-Wong (Ward 34), chair
of the city’s public works and
infrastructure committee, said
in a statement.

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Opening ceremonies are
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same day at Playter Gardens (9
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Commuters feel closure of Pape station
for renovation was a ‘good decision’
>>>from page 1
There was no subway or bus
service at the station over
the course of the shutdown,
which began Aug. 19. While
that proved a headache for
transit riders like Manjot
Sharma, he said the inconvenience was worth it.
“They made a good decision to close,” he said.
The feedback on social
media was also largely positive.
Un i v e r s i t y s t u d e n t
Nazaneen Afifa tweeted,
“Pape station looks so different and nicer. Looks like the
500 years of construction paid
off. No longer embarrassed to
get off at the station.”
Andy Byford, Toronto
Transit Commission CEO,
and Brad Ross, communications chief, were also on hand
part of Tuesday morning to
welcome commuters to the
station.
Over the course of the
shutdown, a total of 90
workers rotated daytime and
overnight shifts 24 hours a
day completing tiling and
painting and other station
finishes at Pape, which until
now never had an extensive
renovation since it opened
along the Bloor-Danforth
subway line in 1966.
The crews also worked on
renovating the station bus bay

Photo/TOM HICKEN

TTC CEO Andy Byford, right, speaks to regular Pape station
commuter Sam Ghemeliopoulos on Tuesday during the station’s reopening after a 12-day closure for renovations.

which will have an enclosed
passenger waiting area when
completed. Last spring, a
majority of respondents to
an online poll supported
closing Pape to speed up the
renovations.
The closure was originally
planned for June, but was put
off following a province-wide
tile workers strike by the Brick
and Allied Craft labour union,
which was contracted by the
TTC to complete the work.
While much of the work is
done, the Pape renovations
are not complete.
Still on the schedule is the
installation of accessibility
elevators leading from the

upper concourse level down
to both eastbound and westbound subway platforms,
as well as landscaping work
and a new bike parking area
located outside the station
on Pape Ave.
The remaining work is
expected to be finished in
October.
An additional station exit
under construction at the
intersection of Pape and
Lipton Avenue is scheduled for completion in
December.

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Award recognizes women’s achievements
>>>from page 1
The award recognizes
women who have made a
significant contribution to
the advancement of women
in public life, a statement
from Equal Voice said.
“Wynne made history
when she became Ontario’s
25th premier and the first
woman to hold this office,”
it said.
“Kathleen is a natural prob-

lem-solver who is dedicated
to bringing groups together
to achieve real results. She
and her team are focused
on building a strong, fair
Ontario where communities
can thrive and our economy
can grow.”
Wynne was sworn in as
premier on Feb. 11 after winning the Liberal leadership at
Toronto’s former Maple Leaf
Gardens in January.

She was first elected to
Queen’s Park as Don Valley
West MPP in 2003.
Wynne has served as minister of municipal affairs
and housing, minister of
Aboriginal affairs, minister of
transportation and minister
of education.

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aspx?id=3234

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residents in the life of their city. Toronto thrives on your great ideas
and actions. We invite you to get involved.

East Don Trail Environmental
Environmental Assessment
Notice Public Event #2
The City of Toronto and Toronto and Region Conservation (TRCA) are
hosting an event where you can learn more about the East Don Trail
Environmental Assessment (EA) study. You will be able to review
summary materials and discuss the project with staff. An overview of
the project will be presented at 6:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.
Join us to learn more about the work completed to date and to provide
your feedback on the selection of a preferred trail route.

MEETING WITH
CHAREST
SPECIAL GUEST: Former premier of Quebec Jean Charest
shakes hands with Gordon Baker at the 10th annual
summer party in Parkview Hills hosted by area resident
Justin Van Dette. Charest, who was also the former
leader of the federal Progressive Conservative party
spoke to those in attendence about his life in public
service.
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Open House 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Presentations 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The Estonian House
958 Broadview Ave.
(south of O'Connor Drive)
Use south facing entrance.
Background
The City of Toronto and TRCA are
studying the creation of a multi-use
trail system within the East Don
valley lands. The proposed trail
would provide a key connection in
the multi-use trail network, joining
the existing East Don Trail (East of
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Retired Supreme Court
of Canada Justice Frank
Iacobucci will now lead a
review of Toronto police’s
use of force options when
dealing with the emotionally
disturbed, Chief Bill Blair has
announced.
“I have asked Justice
Iacobucci to review our policies, procedures and training
as well as the equipment used
by members of the Toronto
Police Service and to conduct
an international review of best
practice to provide myself and

the service with advice and
recommendations on how we
can improve our response to
these difficult and sometimes
dangerous situations,” Blair
said Friday afternoon, adding
the recommendations will be
made public.
On Aug. 12, Blair named
retired Ontario chief justice
Dennis O’Connor to head the
internal review.
But O’Connor resigned
from the position last
Wednesday due to potential conflict of interest: he’s
affiliated with a law firm that
represents Toronto police in
civil suits and inquests.

“I have a great respect for
Mr. O’Connor and his work
and I understand and respect
the decision that he made,”
Blair said.
“I think his intent was to
ensure that this important
work wasn’t in any way
diminished by any appearance or even perception of
conflict.”
The initial announcement
to hold the review came just
over two weeks after 18-yearold Sammy Yatim was shot
and killed by a police officer
while wielding a knife on an
empty streetcar on Dundas
Street.

Following a probe by the
province’s police watchdog,
the Special Investigations
Unit, Const. James Forcillo
was charged with seconddegree murder.
He has been suspended
with pay.
“My request to Justice
Iacobucci is in the nature of
a forward-looking review that
will lead to improvements in
the policies and procedures
that guide our officers, the
training that provides them
with the skills and competencies to respond effectively
and the equipment that will
enable them to resolve these

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said.
“I’m very confident that
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and guidance to the Toronto
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us to improve the quality of
our service to the people of
Toronto.”
Blair noted he has assigned
an inspector to assist
Iacobucci. When asked when
the review will be completed,
the chief said he doesn’t have
strict timelines.

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Students helped build an orphanage in El Dorado, Philippines as a part of the TCDSB Catholic
Leadership Program over Christmas break and New Years 2013.

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Students were being ushered
back to school, before school
even started, as a part of the
Toronto Catholic District
School Board’s ( TCDSB)
leadership programming.
The school board is continuing its Catholic leadership
programs through the final
days of summer and through
the school year in order to
help them to become better
students and leaders.
“The focus of our programs
other than teaching the kids
leadership skills is to help
them transition into high
school,” said Michael Consul
from the TCDSB.
Consul, along with Greg
Rogers from the school board,
run conferences throughout the school year at the
University of Toronto for
older students called Voices
that Challenge, and at high
schools for those transitioning from elementary school
to high school, called ILITE:
Intermediate Leaders in
Training Event.
“The kids are 13 years old
and they’re going to a super
big leadership conference
and they’re learning skills that
I never learned until I was in
my twenties,” said Consul
about ILITE.
“They’re going to the high

school that they’re going
to, so then they’re getting
familiar with the building
and the path to get there,”
said Consul. “It really gets
them used to that high school
atmosphere.”
“When they get to high
school, they’ve been to the
building several times, they’ve
already met all these kids, and
so that transition is not that
fish out of water...and you
have a whole bunch of other
fishes that you’ve met.”
The conferences took place
across the city, and during the
summer, kids had the opportunity to head to three-day
summer camps at Olympia
Sports Camp.
At the camps kids got the
opportunity to play various
leadership games, listen to
speakers and learn how to do
debriefs at upcoming conferences throughout the year.
“I’ve gotten to know people
so well here that I’ll feel totally
comfortable if I need help
running an event or if I want
people from various schools...
to come to our event that I
can now have that contact,”
said Hannah McGroarty, an
East York student from St.
Patrick Secondary.
McGroarty, a Grade 11
student, is vice president
of the student council at St.
Patrick’s and is also a part
of the Catholic Leadership

Action Team, which has
meetings at the school board
once a month, and the School
Activity Team.
“They have been teaching us various skills that we
can take back to use in our
schools and for the rest of our
lives,” said McGroarty about
the week-long camp that she’s
been attending as a part of
the Catholic Leadership
Program.
Some of the events
McGroarty has helped organize at school include a Smile
Day.
“We just put smiley faces
all around the school and play
positive music in the morning
to create some sense of community and belonging,” said
McGroarty. “The students
that maybe are kind of forgotten can feel like they’re
a part of something during
that day.”
Some of the issues
McGroarty has been learning about at the camp are
Gay Straight Alliances and
inclusion, which is something she said is an issue in
the TCDSB,
“We’ve had lots of bonding, which is really great,”
said McGroarty. “It’s been so
much fun.”

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Urban film
fest returns
JUSTIN SKINNER
jskinner@insidetoronto.com
Commuters taking the subway will
be able to enjoy short, independent films as they wait for their
ride with the return of the Toronto
Urban Film Festival (TUFF).
Now in its seventh year, TUFF
offers a selection of silent, oneminute shorts from around
the world, with a different film
screening every 10 minutes on
each of the network’s 290 Pattison
Onestop screens.
The brainchild of founder and
Sharon Switzer, executive director
of Art 4 Commuters, the festival
features animated and live-action
shorts.
Switzer said the idea for TUFF
came about after she spoke with
the company that operates the
screens in subway stations.
“It was sort of a no-brainer,”
she said. “You have a city that
loves film, you give people films
in public spaces, who’s not going
to love it?”
This year’s TUFF festival features 82 films from 20 countries.
Of those, 23 come from Toronto,
with some coming from such destinations as far away as Kenya and
Iran. The selections were chosen
from some 390 submissions by
guest judge and acclaimed filmmaker Bruce McDonald.
“It was an incredibly strong
year for us,” Switzer said. “What
we used to get in a (minute-long
film), when you compare it to
what we get now, the difference
is amazing.”
In addition to the selected
films, TUFF will include some
special series. On Friday, Sept. 13,
experimental filmmaker Christina
Battle’s “we’re not exactly sure
what happened” series will provide alternative imagery to go
along with snippets from CNN’s
coverage of the Boston bombing from April. Select screens in
Dundas, St. Andrew and YongeBloor stations will be dedicated
purely to TUFF films, and the
films will also be screened as a
collection at the Drake Hotel with
showings from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15.

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For more info on the festival, visit
www.torontourbanfilmfestival.
com.

david nickle
the city

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David Nickle is The Mirror’s city hall
reporter. His column, which appears
on Thursday, will return Sept. 12.

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transit

Dangerous intersections charted
RAHUL GUPTA
rgupta@insidetoronto.com
A graduate student’s analysis
of 24 years of bike collision
data suggests cyclists are
more at risk on streets without bike lanes.
Adrian Verster’s study
examines 31,000 accidents
involving cyclists taken
from the city’s Toronto
Traffic Safety Unit’s (TTSU)
reporting between 1986 and
2010. As the incidents were
GPS tagged, he was able to
pinpoint which streets the
accidents were taking place
in order to come up with a
list of the 50 most dangerous intersections in the city
to cycle.
He examined collision
statistics released annually
by the TTSU based primarily
on data taken from police
reports detailing the nature
of cycling accidents, where it
took place, who was at fault
and other factors.
As an avid cyclist with an
interest in statistical analysis, Verster had downloaded
the publicly available data

on cycling collisions, which
he planned to examine in
detail in between completing
his PhD in genomics at the
University of Toronto.
But what really motivated
him to complete the study
was the serious accident his
girlfriend Kate had while
riding her bike a month ago
near Avenue and Davenport
Roads, fourth on his list of
dangerous intersections.
struck by car
“She was struck by a car
turning right, and was in hospital for 48 hours,” recalled
Verster. “She suffered a concussion, which all things
considered was extremely
good compared to how bad
it could have been.”
At first, Verster found the
busiest intersections, like
those along Yonge Street,
had the largest number of
collisions. That came as no
surprise given the high volumes of traffic.
But when he “normalized” the data” by taking
into account existing traf-

fic volume at intersections
and the surrounding area,
he began to see patterns
emerge along two prominent
streets.
“Bloor Street and Queen
Street began to show up a lot
and the similarity is they don’t
have bike lanes,” said Verster
this week. “They’re used a
lot for commuting and I’m
almost certain that’s why they
showed up in the analysis.”
City spokesperson Daniel
Egan said some of Verster’s
findings were in line with
previous analysis.
Still, Egan warned against
making conclusions based on
decades-old data.
“I would question whether
data 25 years ago is relevant
today,” said Egan, manager
of cycling infrastructure and
programs for the city. “I would
interpret these numbers with
a grain of salt.”
Egan said city streets are
getting safer since more
people are riding.

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most-dangerous-bike-intersestions-in-toronto/

service
boosted this month
wTransit
The TTC boosted service to
many of its transit routes as
of Sept. 1
Thirty-three bus routes,
plus streetcar and subway
service, have ended lessfrequent summer service in
response to increased ridership with the start of the fall
schedule.
Students looking to get
a student photo ID can opt
to have their picture taken
at Sherbourne Station from
Monday to Friday between
3 to 7 p.m. and Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The
ID is a must to purchase a
discounted monthly pass or
pay a student fare.
to discuss
noise wall barrier
wmeeting

Metrolinx is planning a series
of west-end public meetings
to discuss proposed designs
for a five-metre noise wall
barrier to go up along the
Georgetown South GO rail
corridor.
Four meetings are scheduled this month starting
Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the York
West Active Living Centre, at
1901 Weston Rd. Anyone who

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can’t attend the meetings can
provide feedback online at
www.gotransit.com/gts
Metrolinx says the barriers are required to lessen the
noise impact from increased
diesel train traffic when the
Union Pearson Express air
rail link opens in 2015.
launches new
transit campaign
wPETA

Pe o p l e f o r t h e Et h i c a l
Treatment of Animals (PETA)
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awareness campaign on GO
Transit trains.
One hundred and fortysix ads depicting an impoverished young girl with the
tagline “When You Eat Meat,
She Doesn’t Eat” were posted
on GO train cars at the end
of August.
car-sharing
parking opens up
wMore

New on-street parking
spaces were made available to car-share users this
week.
Around 26 additional spots

are now open in nine locations
around the downtown core
and East York, which expands
a pilot project launched in
2009 by the city to encourage
car-sharing as an alternative
to car-ownership.
Toronto will also host the
2013 CarSharing Association
conference Sept. 16 to 17.
Commons
Stays open
wCorktown

It seems news of Corktown
Common’s imminent closing
was premature as the urban
park will now stay open until
Thanksgiving weekend.
Last week, Waterfront
Toronto extended the closing date of the 18-acre public
space, which doubles as a
flood protection system and
is situated close to the GO
Train tracks and a burgeoning
condo community in the West
Donlands. The park, which
opened in an unfinished state
in late June, was scheduled to
close for the winter right after
Labour Day weekend to complete final touches in time for
a spring 2014 re-opening.
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transit reporter. His column
appears on Thursday. Reach
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